Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy
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Heywood Leslie
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| Titolo: |
Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 796/.082 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sports for women - Social aspects - United States |
| Women athletes - United States | |
| Feminism and sports - United States | |
| Sex discrimination in sports - United States | |
| Altri autori: |
DworkinShari L
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-204) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Women We Love Who Kick Butt; ONE: Powered Up or Dreaming?; TWO: Sport as the Stealth Feminism of the Third Wave; THREE: A New Look at Female Athletes and Masculinity; FOUR: Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA; FIVE: Body Panic Parity; SIX: She Will Beat You Up, and Your Papa, Too; Epilogue: It's an Image; Appendix: Focus-Group Research on Youth Attitudes about Female Athletes; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin examine the role of empowered female athletes in American popular culture through interviews with girls and boys; readings of ad campaigns by Nike, Reebok, and others; discussions of movies like Fight Club and Girlfight; and explorations of their own sports experiences. Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Built to win |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9181-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820860503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Sport and culture series ; ; v. 5.